I agree with hiwa: mixed with a little soy sauce, green onion, and wasabi, natto is good. Having said that, it is still forbidden at our dinner table when I'm home because of the smell. Sometimes when I come home after dinnertime I can immediately tell that my family has eaten natto. The whole house smells worse than when my sons leave their gym socks laying around after basketball practice. :p

hiwa wrote:Except for some unlucky countries including UK and US, nation has its tradition of fermented proteinous food in which a part of protein is decomposed into its constituent amino acids giving both its characteristic taste and smell.

> Foreign kids in Japan hate it too! I love this photo.
From the photo, serving is wrong. Throw away feed for a stray dog? It's almost terrible and doesn't make a decent dish in a meal which should be a culture of human being. Even me, if I am a kid, would becom natto hater if it is served like this.

Oyaji wrote:I agree with hiwa: mixed with a little soy sauce, green onion, and wasabi, natto is good. Having said that, it is still forbidden at our dinner table when I'm home because of the smell. Sometimes when I come home after dinnertime I can immediately tell that my family has eaten natto. The whole house smells worse than when my sons leave their gym socks laying around after basketball practice. :p

oyaji, isn't that the traditional way to eat natto? with what you mentioned?

and eating natto one bean at a time is like eating rice one grain at a time.. there is a reason that Japanese rice is a bit sticky.. and natto is as well.. rofl

なるほど。 たしかAkuMuさんは化学に詳しい方だったと記憶しているので
An article says there are 65 ingredients of scents in なっとう.
One of the ingredients, which name is a Diacetyl(ジアセチル), is also main scent ingredient of butter. According to the article, some ingredients of fatty acids cause bad smells of なっとう. Especially one of fatty acid, an Iso-Valeric acid, is awful. They say that is a same scent ingredient with a smelly feet. .

I never noticed a similarity of scent between なっとう and peanuts butter.
I am going to find an old peanut butter in order to force my friends to eat it.